Mother's Day Weekend

What a gorgeous weekend! I worked out in the yard as much as I could both days. I dismantled the section of the compost Bin that fell down over the winter. I want to try and re-use a couple of the boards to repair a few spots where other ones rotted away and fell off.
Early on yesterday Tomcat was on the porch stalking a baby squirrel, and both of them got frightened by the mail carrier. Tomcat jumped off the porch and the squirrel first climbed up on top of the bird feeder, and then from there jumped into the hanging planter that is about a foot away.

The baby is the one a few feet up from the ground.

I was watching from the living room, and could tell this little one could not figure a way out of that pickle. So I slowly walked up and lifted the whole pot and set it down on the ledge of the porch. Well that poor little thing was hanging on to the planter for dear life scared out of it's mind, and was frozen. I walked back inside and watched a few minutes more from the living room, but it was not going anywhere.

I went out there again, and Woody followed me out and jumped up on the ledge, but seemed to be oblivious to the squirrel at first, and I ended up kind of tilting the pot, and it finally jumped out. .

Woody was just more curious than anything at that point and was checking it out, but not hunting it. It finally went down the side of the porch and around the side of the house, where Munchkin stinker that he is, proceed to stalk it. Thankfully he didn't catch up with it.

A little later the baby and apparently both parents were all up in the apple trees in the backyard and then Boo was the stalker. She didn't do any harm either, but I got a few pictures of that encounter. i didn't realize until I looked at the first picture on the computer that one of the squirrels must have been just a few feet away from her in the grass.

Sunny Weekend for the Cats

Boo and Woody

It didn't last long, but I got this picture before Woody got up and walked away to check something out in the yard.
That 'super-moon' last night was beautiful, and it was clear and sunny from the start today.

Munchkin and Squirrel

Munchkin was in fine form yesterday playing with his squirrel buddy. I think he really doesn't want to do them any harm - it's all about the chase.
There was a couple walking down the alley that scared the squirrel after I took this picture. It ran right past Munchkin, and he just was crouching even lower to the ground when they walked past, that he didn't even turn to look at the squirrel...

The Daily Show

Madeline Albright

Of course as usual on my weekend I'm playing catch-up. I am trying to catch up on The Daily Show from last week through this week.  I just watched a two part interview he had with Madeline Albright from April 24th, and it was pretty good. Here is the link for part one  and the link for part two

Bits & Pieces

Nemesia

Nemesia Close-Up

I love this plant! I bought one last spring, but had bad luck in re-potting it and it died right away. I was excited to see it again at Fred Meyer and this one is doing great.
The Sweet Peas are slowly coming along, I think it hasn't been warm enough for them to really thrive yet. I'm going to wait another week at least before planting some herb seeds in planters, hopefully it will be consistently warmer at night soon so that they will be successful.


I experienced a real bummer this last week when someone took my clay planter that I had on the front porch and smashed it to bits on the sidewalk in front of my neighbor Dave's empty house next door. I had geraniums in it that I had wintered inside for two years in a row and they were in fantastic shape. I had planned on putting a few more planters out there this year, but won't be after this. I just planted one more hanging planter, hopefully that should be safe. I planted a purplish geranium with both light and deep blue Lobelia in the hanging planter.
I worked some overtime this week, we are starting to head in to the busy season. And yesterday I met with Denise, Jo & her mom Dot, and Steve & Naomi at AB Crepes downtown. The food was good, any they were busy which is a good sign for a new business. Jo owns the building, so I really hope they are successful and good long term tenants for her.
I also read in the Herald that a Philly Cheese-Steak shop opened up out on Mount Baker Highway; and oh man! I wish it was closer! The gal managing it used to work at the one in town here that closed almost ten years ago, and I still really miss that place.

Bits & Pieces

Sweet Peas & Obelisk

I got this obelisk at Fred Meyer this week for my sweet peas, I think this is going to work much better than the small trellis I got last year. I really hope that it ends up covered in blooms!
Boy what a nice weekend it turned out to be. I broke out the shorts and worked in the yard most of the day Saturday after Boo and I got back from her vet visit. It was time for her annual exam, and she actually was really relaxed with Dr. Feringer to the point that he was waiting for her to stop purring so he could listen to her heart. She just didn't like the car ride...

I planted some ivy geraniums in the recycled wood hanging planter I got from the Farmer's Co-op last summer. I planted 3 coral colored and one red together. I got a small purple/fuchsia colored geranium and a deep purple snapdragon and a few blue lobelia, but didn't get those planted yet. They are in a tub in the kitchen; I'm enjoying the color inside!
Pauline just finished her last dose of antibiotics today, and the cold seems to be gone. I made a batch of vanilla bean ice cream yesterday to take to work tomorrow. And today I baked Raisin Cake to take to my mechanic, and raspberry cobbler for my coffee break at work. I wanted to treat Rob and the guys at Hi-Tech, they are always so nice to me. They took my old lawnmower, so that I didn't have to deal with getting the gas out before taking it to get recycled; they did all of that for me.
It's been busy at work still, but no overtime this past week. I've been there a year now as of last Thursday, and it's been interesting being there for when the new seasonal folks start and seeing how it impacts the workload (and parking lot).
I played around last night with a new background for the blog, I wanted something different, at least for now. They just updated the blogs, and I like the matting around the pictures, it helps bring them in to focus. I better sign off now so I can watch the latest episode of Awake online before the news...